{"product_id":"the-sleepwalkers-isbn-9780140192469","title":"The Sleepwalkers","description":"An extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.The Sleepwalkers - Arthur Koestler       Preface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: The Heroic Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Dawn\u003cbr\u003e2. The Harmony of the Spheres\u003cbr\u003e3. The Earth Adrift\u003cbr\u003e4. The Failure of Nerve\u003cbr\u003e5. The Divorce from Reality\u003cbr\u003eChronological Table to Part One\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Dark Interlude\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Rectangular Universe\u003cbr\u003e2. The Walled-in Universe\u003cbr\u003e3. The Universe of the Schoolmen\u003cbr\u003eChronological Table to Part Two\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: The Timid Canon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Life of Copernicus\u003cbr\u003e2. The System of Copernicus\u003cbr\u003eChronological Table to Part Three\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: The Watershed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Young Kepler\u003cbr\u003e2. The \"Cosmic Mystery\"\u003cbr\u003e3. Growing Pains\u003cbr\u003e4. Tycho de Brahe\u003cbr\u003e5. Tycho and Kepler\u003cbr\u003e6. The Giving of the Laws\u003cbr\u003e7. Kepler Depressed\u003cbr\u003e8. Kepler and Galileo\u003cbr\u003e9. Chaos and Harmony\u003cbr\u003e10. Computing a Bride\u003cbr\u003e11. The Last Years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five: The Parting of the Ways\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Burden of Proof\u003cbr\u003e2. The Trial of Galileo\u003cbr\u003e3. The Newtonian Synthesis\u003cbr\u003eChronological Table to Parts Four and Five\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003eArthur Koestler\u003c\/b\u003e (1905–1983) was an extraordinary polymath, writer, and political polemicist. His most famous works include the novels \u003ci\u003eDarkness at Noon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArrival and Departure\u003c\/i\u003e; his autobiographical writings, including \u003ci\u003eSpanish Testament\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScum of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e; and his visionary nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost in the Machine, The Case of the Midwife Toad,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalkers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerbert Butterfield\u003c\/b\u003e was an influencial historiographer born in 1900 in Yorkshire, England. A graduate of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, he is best known for his 1931 work \u003ci\u003eThe Whig Interpretation of History\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1979.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300902883557,"sku":"NP9780140192469","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140192469.jpg?v=1767741547","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-sleepwalkers-isbn-9780140192469","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}